growingn.

/ˈɡrəʊɪŋ/

Etymology: < grow v. + -ing suffix¹.

1. The action of grow v.

a. in intransitive senses. (Also with up.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > existence > [noun] > coming into existence

upspringc1000

arising1340

growingc1380

arrival1581

uprising1587

coming1626

rise1640

emersion1678

extancea1682

nascency1682

uprise1817

upstarting1845

becoming1853

nascence1892

the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > [noun]

growingc1380

profitingc1384

increasec1385

bettering?c1425

progress1457

advancementc1475

service1533

progression1586

increment1609

upgrowinga1618

flowering1629

rise1676

development1756

evolution1796

march1818

headway1832

upgrowth1844

upbuilding1876

c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 347 Þei [Apostles]..traveiliden more bisili to growyng & profiting of þe Chirche.

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) v. xxx. 140 The growyng and fedyng of nayles is lyke to the growynge of here.

1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. 1 Pet. ii. f. v^v The ghospels doctryne hath his principles, it hath his infancye..it hath also his farther growinges.

1642 T. Fuller Holy State iv. x. 288 Thus a Saint of God, like an oke, may be cut down in a moment; but how many years was he a growing!

1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 105 The growing up of the Corn.

1818 Art of preserving Feet 182 A nail which bends down~wards and grows in that position, produces one species of what is commonly called ‘growing into the flesh’.

1868 W. Morris Earthly Paradise ii. 552 In the orchard hangs aloft The purple fig, a-growing soft.

1870 H. Spencer First Princ. (rev. ed.) ii. iv. §53. 174 A growing up to the recognition of necessary truth.

1900 N.E.D. at Growing Mod. ‘All a-blowing, all a-growing’ (London flower-seller's cry).

b. in transitive senses.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > [noun]

governaila1400

husbanding?1440

nursing?1533

culture1580

cultivation1637

elevation1658

growth1663

rearing1693

growing1889

1889 Daily News 21 Jan. 5/4 Trial growings of new sorts, side by side with established varieties.

†2.

a. Growth; the faculty, period, or process of growth. Rarely plural. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > biology > biological processes > development, growth, or degeneration > [noun] > growth

waxa1300

growing1390

upgrowing1430

grow1536

shooting1579

growth1587

1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 35 Man of soule resonable..lich to beste he hath feling And lich to tres he hath growing.

c1430 Hymns Virg. 19 Wiþ trees and gras þou ȝaf us growinge.

?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xl If the hege be of ten or twelfe yeres growyng syth it was first sette.

1566 Bk. Discipline in Wks. J. Knox (1848) II. 181 To consider the different conditions of the Kirk in her infancie, in her growing and in her ripe age.

†b. concrete. A growth, a crop. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > biology > biological processes > development, growth, or degeneration > [noun] > growth > a growth, or something that grows

growing1549

upgrowth1845

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > crop or crops > [noun]

wastumc888

tiltha1100

estrea1300

madder-cropc1300

gainage1390

cropa1400

yieldingc1405

emblement1495

burden?1523

increase1535

field-ware1546

gather1555

esplees1598

husbandrya1616

glebe1660

warea1661

récolte1669

tilling1680

tillage1681

stuffa1687

growing1722

bearing1747

raccolta1748

the crops1789

plant1832

raising1857

cropping1861

1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. 1 Cor. xi. f. xxxi^v To whome [sc. womanne] of nature is gyuen a more thicke and more large growyng of heare, than to the manne.

1722 R. Wodrow Hist. Sufferings Church of Scotl. II. iii. iii. 76 His Master took from him Nine Cows..with all the Crop and Growing of that Year.

†3. In nonce-uses:

a. Interest on money advanced. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 431 b/1 To paye or yelde to them theyr usure or growyng.

b. Advance, progress. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iv. i. 16 Your patience this allowing, I turne my glasse, and giue my Scene such growing As you had slept betweene.

†4. growing-to: see grow v. 5b.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

growing-age n.

ΚΠ

1881 H. James Portrait of Lady xxi, in Macmillan's Mag. Mar. 330/2 A plain muslin gown, too short for the wearer, and denoting that she was at the so called ‘growing’ age.

growing-period n.

ΚΠ

1896 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. I. 162 New formation and regeneration are continually taking place during life, even after completion of the growing period.

growing-place n.

ΚΠ

1551 W. Turner New Herball sig. A iv^v Pliny writeth of the growyng place of this herbe thus..This groweth in the sea.

growing-region n.

ΚΠ

1927 J. B. S. Haldane & J. S. Huxley Animal Biol. xii. 282 This growing-region often continues active throughout life.

1958 K. G. Brocklehurst & H. Ward Gen. School Biol. 146 (caption) Growing region of a root.

growing-season n.

growing-time n.

ΚΠ

14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 736/41 Hoc ver, groyngtyme.

c1440 J. Lydgate Secrees 1301 The growyng tyme and the yong sonne; I mene the sesoun whan veer is be gonne.

C2.

growing-cell n. a microscope-slide on which minute objects are kept growing in water.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > biology > laboratory analysis > apparatus > [noun] > plate or slide

growing-slide1856

growing-cell1867

plate1886

1867 J. Hogg Microscope (ed. 6) i. iii. 198 Growing-cells.

growing-on n. the cultivating of seedlings, the breeding of young chicks, etc., to maturity or full size.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > [noun] > cultivation of seedlings to maturity

growing-on1960

the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping birds > poultry-keeping > [noun] > growing to maturity

growing-on1960

1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 15 Mar. 150/2 A new popular system for growing-on from 8 to 10 weeks to laying stage.

1960 Jrnl. Royal Hort. Soc. 85 89 Cost can also be reduced by purchasing small specimens and growing on.

1962 J. N. Winburne Dict. Agric. 354/2 Growing-on-house, a greenhouse used for growing potted plants from the small plant stage to maturity.

growing pains n. (see quot. 1886); also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > evolving or developing > pain or effort of creation

growing pains1810

the world > action or operation > difficulty > [noun] > a difficulty > in early stages of anything

growing pains1810

teething troubles1937

the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > [noun] > growing pains

thrifta1800

growing pains1810

1810 S. T. Coleridge Notes & Lect. (1874) 79 In the third [class], as indicating a greater energy..yet still with some of the growing-pains, and the awkwardness of growth—I place—Troilus and Cressida [etc.].

1886 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Growing pains, the neuralgic pains in the limbs which are not uncommon in young persons during the period of growth.

1915 A. Huxley Let. Oct. (1969) 80 Germany seems to be like..a new growing country, swelled with its own pride, filled by its growing pains with an immense folie de grandeur.

1923 J. M. Murry Pencillings 70 The struggles of a generation towards complete rationality..are growing pains.

growing point n. (see quot.); also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > part of plant > shoot, sprout, or branch > [noun] > tip from which new growth emerges

apex1835

growing point1835

mantle1884

1835 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. (ed. 2) i. ii. 56 They [sc. the leaf-buds] consist of scales imbricated over each other..and surrounding a minute cellular axis, or growing point.

1880 S. H. Vines tr. K. Prantl Elem. Text-bk. Bot. ii. 64 The growing end or apex of an organ, such as a root or a stem, is called the growing-point (punctum vegetationis).

1882 S. H. Vines tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 138 The terminal portion of an organ with permanent apical growth, consisting entirely of primary meristem, is termed the Growing Point or ‘Punctum Vegetationis’.

1948 Mind 57 103 I shall..indicate what seem to me the growing points in his theory.

1959 Listener 15 Jan. 108/2 Muir..had truly perceived where lay the growing~point of poetry in our time.

1962 Punch 28 Feb. 343/2 Secondary Modern..is undoubtedly one of the ‘growing points’ in English education.

growing season n. the season when rainfall and temperature permit plants to grow.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > [noun] > growing season or weather

grass1485

florescence1793

growing weather1794

growing season1845

the world > time > period > year > season > [noun] > spring

LenteneOE

LentlOE

warea1300

verec1325

vera1382

vere-time1382

springing timea1387

springinga1398

springa1400

prime tempsa1425

the spring of the year1481

grass1485

springtime1495

prime time1503

sap-time?1523

spring tide1530

(the) spring of the leaf1538

prime1541

prime tide1549

voar1629

vernal season1644

vernal1654

outcome1672

Lent term1691

blossom-time1713

open water1759

rabi1783

budding-timea1807

ware-time1820

growing season1845

1845 Florist's Jrnl. 6 61 We advise a decided difference in the supply at the growing season and afterwards.

1924 W. S. Jones Timbers i. 5 The process [of tissue growth] continues throughout the growing season.

1957 G. E. Hutchinson Treat. Limnol. I. vii. 526 The incidence of small lakes may increase the growing season for crops.

growing-slide n. = growing-cell n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > biology > laboratory analysis > apparatus > [noun] > plate or slide

growing-slide1856

growing-cell1867

plate1886

1856 W. B. Carpenter Microscope 144 A small addition may be conveniently made to the glass stage-plate, which adapts it for use as a Growing-slide.

growing stock n. Forestry the total quantity of trees in an area.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [noun] > growing-stock

growing stock1889

1889 W. Schlich Man. Forestry I. i. i. 15 The capital employed in forestry consists principally of the soil and the growing stock of wood.

1967 D. R. Johnston et al. Forest Planning xviii. 287 The level of the growing stock is clearly an important factor in thinning.

growing weather n. weather adapted to further the growth of plants. Growing weather might belong to growing adj. (Cf. quot. 1782 at that entry).

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > [noun] > growing season or weather

grass1485

florescence1793

growing weather1794

growing season1845

the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > [noun] > kinds of weather > a spell of a kind of > specific

tide-weather1740

growing weather1794

sugar-weather1826

sap weather1950

1794 Trans. Soc. Arts 12 137 The first growing weather in March and April.

growing zone n. the region of an annelid worm in which growth or regeneration is initiated.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Annelida > [noun] > member of > parts of > region in which growth occurs

growing zone1923

growth zone1927

1923 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 211 145 There were behind this four segments with setæ, one without setæ and a growing zone.

1952 Biol. Rev. XXVII. 408 The posterior residual growing zone itself grows progressively more slowly.

Draft additions June 2016

growing bag n. originally and chiefly British = growbag n. 2.

ΚΠ

1971 Grower 25 Sept. 621/1 A further development..is the introduction of the Levington growing bags, sausage-shaped packs..in which tomatoes can be grown in total isolation.

1995 Guardian 8 Apr. a64/4 Growing bags should always be your last resort for tomato growing, as it is so difficult to maintain moisture in them at a constant level.

2006 Gardens Monthly Apr. (Reader's Digest Compl. Veg. Gardener Extract) 4/3 There is a limited depth of compost in growing bags, so these also need frequent watering; otherwise, they are convenient to use.

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growingadj.

/ˈɡrəʊɪŋ/

Etymology: < grow v. + -ing suffix².

That grows, in senses of the verb. (Also with up.) growing pay, growing wages (see quot. 1867).

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > biology > biological processes > development, growth, or degeneration > [adjective] > growth

growinga900

vegetativec1460

crescive1566

vegetive1615

accretive1661

accrescent1713

growthful1849

the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective]

waxing1297

multiplyinga1400

augmentive1483

breeding1552

crescent1568

growingc1587

enhancinga1592

creasing1592

teeming1597

increasing1600

auctive1634

echinga1644

multiplicating1661

gliscent1669

enlarging1694

augmenting1745

swelling1854

a900 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 66/23 Uirens folium, growende leaf.

OE Genesis 890 Hwæt druge þu, dohtor..growendra gifa.

c1587 Let. All Souls' Coll. in C. R. L. Fletcher Collectanea (1885) I. 211 Expences, which..are to be defrayed by our woodes as by a growinge treasure.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. ii. sig. Dd5 If thou may with reason yet represse The growing euill, ere it strength haue gott.

1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 18 Hewne and framed out of the rocke or growing stone.

1703 N. Rowe Ulysses v. i. 1878 Each moment brings the growing Danger nearer.

1745 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farming (new ed.) iii. 44 The great Stones that we call growing Stones, composed of vast Numbers of small Pebbles that lie in little Cells or Holes.

1782 T. Barker in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 72 282 Soon after April came in, the weather was fine and growing, sometimes showery.

1783 E. Burke Rep. Affairs India in Wks. (1819) XI. 278 This receipt of sums of money, under colour of gift, seemed a growing evil.

1804 Ld. Nelson in Dispatches & Lett. (1846) VI. 126 You are to inquire whether blame is to be attached to any individual for the said loss, in order that it may be charged against his growing wages.

1859 A. Helps Friends in Council New Ser. I. To Rdr. 3 The growing practice of maintaining large standing armies in times of peace.

1863 C. Lyell Geol. Evid. Antiq. Man 31 It seems..to have been surrounded by growing trees.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Growing pay, that which succeeds the dead-horse, or pay in prospect.

1868 A. Helps Realmah I. v. 108 He has growing-up boys to deal with.

1889 J. S. Burdon-Sanderson in Nature 26 Sept. 523 A growing organism is not the same to-day as it was yesterday.

Derivatives

ˈgrowingly adv. increasingly.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [adverb]

increasinglyc1380

waxingly1483

increasably1579

still1596

augmentedly1754

growingly1758

increasedly1823

1758 S. Hayward Seventeen Serm. Introd. 10 He seems to have been growingly solicitous to advance the interest of religion.

1869 I. Burns Life W. C. Burns (1870) iv. 85 The result was seen in a growingly heightened tone of moral and religious life.

1872 Contemp. Rev. 19 211 Every one..must have been growingly persuaded that its investigations were destined to bring out results of deep interest.

ˈgrowingness n. rare the characteristic quality of a growing plant; in quot. figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > [noun] > quality of

growingness1894

1894 Sat. Rev. 3 Mar. 231 There is a rapid fresh growingness in it [a novel].

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单词	growing
释义	growingn. /ˈɡrəʊɪŋ/ Etymology: < grow v. + -ing suffix¹. 1. The action of grow v. a. in intransitive senses. (Also with up.) ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > [noun] > coming into existence upspringc1000 arising1340 growingc1380 arrival1581 uprising1587 coming1626 rise1640 emersion1678 extancea1682 nascency1682 uprise1817 upstarting1845 becoming1853 nascence1892 the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > [noun] growingc1380 profitingc1384 increasec1385 bettering?c1425 progress1457 advancementc1475 service1533 progression1586 increment1609 upgrowinga1618 flowering1629 rise1676 development1756 evolution1796 march1818 headway1832 upgrowth1844 upbuilding1876 c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 347 Þei [Apostles]..traveiliden more bisili to growyng & profiting of þe Chirche. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) v. xxx. 140 The growyng and fedyng of nayles is lyke to the growynge of here. 1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. 1 Pet. ii. f. v^v The ghospels doctryne hath his principles, it hath his infancye..it hath also his farther growinges. 1642 T. Fuller Holy State iv. x. 288 Thus a Saint of God, like an oke, may be cut down in a moment; but how many years was he a growing! 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 105 The growing up of the Corn. 1818 Art of preserving Feet 182 A nail which bends down~wards and grows in that position, produces one species of what is commonly called ‘growing into the flesh’. 1868 W. Morris Earthly Paradise ii. 552 In the orchard hangs aloft The purple fig, a-growing soft. 1870 H. Spencer First Princ. (rev. ed.) ii. iv. §53. 174 A growing up to the recognition of necessary truth. 1900 N.E.D. at Growing Mod. ‘All a-blowing, all a-growing’ (London flower-seller's cry). b. in transitive senses. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > [noun] governaila1400 husbanding?1440 nursing?1533 culture1580 cultivation1637 elevation1658 growth1663 rearing1693 growing1889 1889 Daily News 21 Jan. 5/4 Trial growings of new sorts, side by side with established varieties. †2. a. Growth; the faculty, period, or process of growth. Rarely plural. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > development, growth, or degeneration > [noun] > growth waxa1300 growing1390 upgrowing1430 grow1536 shooting1579 growth1587 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 35 Man of soule resonable..lich to beste he hath feling And lich to tres he hath growing. c1430 Hymns Virg. 19 Wiþ trees and gras þou ȝaf us growinge. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xl If the hege be of ten or twelfe yeres growyng syth it was first sette. 1566 Bk. Discipline in Wks. J. Knox (1848) II. 181 To consider the different conditions of the Kirk in her infancie, in her growing and in her ripe age. †b. concrete. A growth, a crop. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > development, growth, or degeneration > [noun] > growth > a growth, or something that grows growing1549 upgrowth1845 the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > crop or crops > [noun] wastumc888 tiltha1100 estrea1300 madder-cropc1300 gainage1390 cropa1400 yieldingc1405 emblement1495 burden?1523 increase1535 field-ware1546 gather1555 esplees1598 husbandrya1616 glebe1660 warea1661 récolte1669 tilling1680 tillage1681 stuffa1687 growing1722 bearing1747 raccolta1748 the crops1789 plant1832 raising1857 cropping1861 1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. 1 Cor. xi. f. xxxi^v To whome [sc. womanne] of nature is gyuen a more thicke and more large growyng of heare, than to the manne. 1722 R. Wodrow Hist. Sufferings Church of Scotl. II. iii. iii. 76 His Master took from him Nine Cows..with all the Crop and Growing of that Year. †3. In nonce-uses: a. Interest on money advanced. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 431 b/1 To paye or yelde to them theyr usure or growyng. b. Advance, progress. Obsolete. ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iv. i. 16 Your patience this allowing, I turne my glasse, and giue my Scene such growing As you had slept betweene. View more context for this quotation †4. growing-to: see grow v. 5b. Compounds C1. General attributive. growing-age n. ΚΠ 1881 H. James Portrait of Lady xxi, in Macmillan's Mag. Mar. 330/2 A plain muslin gown, too short for the wearer, and denoting that she was at the so called ‘growing’ age. growing-period n. ΚΠ 1896 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. I. 162 New formation and regeneration are continually taking place during life, even after completion of the growing period. growing-place n. ΚΠ 1551 W. Turner New Herball sig. A iv^v Pliny writeth of the growyng place of this herbe thus..This groweth in the sea. growing-region n. ΚΠ 1927 J. B. S. Haldane & J. S. Huxley Animal Biol. xii. 282 This growing-region often continues active throughout life. 1958 K. G. Brocklehurst & H. Ward Gen. School Biol. 146 (caption) Growing region of a root. growing-season n. growing-time n. ΚΠ 14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 736/41 Hoc ver, groyngtyme. c1440 J. Lydgate Secrees 1301 The growyng tyme and the yong sonne; I mene the sesoun whan veer is be gonne. C2. growing-cell n. a microscope-slide on which minute objects are kept growing in water. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > laboratory analysis > apparatus > [noun] > plate or slide growing-slide1856 growing-cell1867 plate1886 1867 J. Hogg Microscope (ed. 6) i. iii. 198 Growing-cells. growing-on n. the cultivating of seedlings, the breeding of young chicks, etc., to maturity or full size. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > [noun] > cultivation of seedlings to maturity growing-on1960 the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping birds > poultry-keeping > [noun] > growing to maturity growing-on1960 1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 15 Mar. 150/2 A new popular system for growing-on from 8 to 10 weeks to laying stage. 1960 Jrnl. Royal Hort. Soc. 85 89 Cost can also be reduced by purchasing small specimens and growing on. 1962 J. N. Winburne Dict. Agric. 354/2 Growing-on-house, a greenhouse used for growing potted plants from the small plant stage to maturity. growing pains n. (see quot. 1886); also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > evolving or developing > pain or effort of creation growing pains1810 the world > action or operation > difficulty > [noun] > a difficulty > in early stages of anything growing pains1810 teething troubles1937 the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > [noun] > growing pains thrifta1800 growing pains1810 1810 S. T. Coleridge Notes & Lect. (1874) 79 In the third [class], as indicating a greater energy..yet still with some of the growing-pains, and the awkwardness of growth—I place—Troilus and Cressida [etc.]. 1886 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Growing pains, the neuralgic pains in the limbs which are not uncommon in young persons during the period of growth. 1915 A. Huxley Let. Oct. (1969) 80 Germany seems to be like..a new growing country, swelled with its own pride, filled by its growing pains with an immense folie de grandeur. 1923 J. M. Murry Pencillings 70 The struggles of a generation towards complete rationality..are growing pains. growing point n. (see quot.); also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > shoot, sprout, or branch > [noun] > tip from which new growth emerges apex1835 growing point1835 mantle1884 1835 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. (ed. 2) i. ii. 56 They [sc. the leaf-buds] consist of scales imbricated over each other..and surrounding a minute cellular axis, or growing point. 1880 S. H. Vines tr. K. Prantl Elem. Text-bk. Bot. ii. 64 The growing end or apex of an organ, such as a root or a stem, is called the growing-point (punctum vegetationis). 1882 S. H. Vines tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 138 The terminal portion of an organ with permanent apical growth, consisting entirely of primary meristem, is termed the Growing Point or ‘Punctum Vegetationis’. 1948 Mind 57 103 I shall..indicate what seem to me the growing points in his theory. 1959 Listener 15 Jan. 108/2 Muir..had truly perceived where lay the growing~point of poetry in our time. 1962 Punch 28 Feb. 343/2 Secondary Modern..is undoubtedly one of the ‘growing points’ in English education. growing season n. the season when rainfall and temperature permit plants to grow. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > [noun] > growing season or weather grass1485 florescence1793 growing weather1794 growing season1845 the world > time > period > year > season > [noun] > spring LenteneOE LentlOE warea1300 verec1325 vera1382 vere-time1382 springing timea1387 springinga1398 springa1400 prime tempsa1425 the spring of the year1481 grass1485 springtime1495 prime time1503 sap-time?1523 spring tide1530 (the) spring of the leaf1538 prime1541 prime tide1549 voar1629 vernal season1644 vernal1654 outcome1672 Lent term1691 blossom-time1713 open water1759 rabi1783 budding-timea1807 ware-time1820 growing season1845 1845 Florist's Jrnl. 6 61 We advise a decided difference in the supply at the growing season and afterwards. 1924 W. S. Jones Timbers i. 5 The process [of tissue growth] continues throughout the growing season. 1957 G. E. Hutchinson Treat. Limnol. I. vii. 526 The incidence of small lakes may increase the growing season for crops. growing-slide n. = growing-cell n. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > laboratory analysis > apparatus > [noun] > plate or slide growing-slide1856 growing-cell1867 plate1886 1856 W. B. Carpenter Microscope 144 A small addition may be conveniently made to the glass stage-plate, which adapts it for use as a Growing-slide. growing stock n. Forestry the total quantity of trees in an area. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [noun] > growing-stock growing stock1889 1889 W. Schlich Man. Forestry I. i. i. 15 The capital employed in forestry consists principally of the soil and the growing stock of wood. 1967 D. R. Johnston et al. Forest Planning xviii. 287 The level of the growing stock is clearly an important factor in thinning. growing weather n. weather adapted to further the growth of plants. Growing weather might belong to growing adj. (Cf. quot. 1782 at that entry). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > [noun] > growing season or weather grass1485 florescence1793 growing weather1794 growing season1845 the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > [noun] > kinds of weather > a spell of a kind of > specific tide-weather1740 growing weather1794 sugar-weather1826 sap weather1950 1794 Trans. Soc. Arts 12 137 The first growing weather in March and April. growing zone n. the region of an annelid worm in which growth or regeneration is initiated. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Annelida > [noun] > member of > parts of > region in which growth occurs growing zone1923 growth zone1927 1923 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 211 145 There were behind this four segments with setæ, one without setæ and a growing zone. 1952 Biol. Rev. XXVII. 408 The posterior residual growing zone itself grows progressively more slowly. Draft additions June 2016 growing bag n. originally and chiefly British = growbag n. 2. ΚΠ 1971 Grower 25 Sept. 621/1 A further development..is the introduction of the Levington growing bags, sausage-shaped packs..in which tomatoes can be grown in total isolation. 1995 Guardian 8 Apr. a64/4 Growing bags should always be your last resort for tomato growing, as it is so difficult to maintain moisture in them at a constant level. 2006 Gardens Monthly Apr. (Reader's Digest Compl. Veg. Gardener Extract) 4/3 There is a limited depth of compost in growing bags, so these also need frequent watering; otherwise, they are convenient to use. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online September 2019). growingadj. /ˈɡrəʊɪŋ/ Etymology: < grow v. + -ing suffix². That grows, in senses of the verb. (Also with up.) growing pay, growing wages (see quot. 1867). ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > development, growth, or degeneration > [adjective] > growth growinga900 vegetativec1460 crescive1566 vegetive1615 accretive1661 accrescent1713 growthful1849 the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] waxing1297 multiplyinga1400 augmentive1483 breeding1552 crescent1568 growingc1587 enhancinga1592 creasing1592 teeming1597 increasing1600 auctive1634 echinga1644 multiplicating1661 gliscent1669 enlarging1694 augmenting1745 swelling1854 a900 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 66/23 Uirens folium, growende leaf. OE Genesis 890 Hwæt druge þu, dohtor..growendra gifa. c1587 Let. All Souls' Coll. in C. R. L. Fletcher Collectanea (1885) I. 211 Expences, which..are to be defrayed by our woodes as by a growinge treasure. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. ii. sig. Dd5 If thou may with reason yet represse The growing euill, ere it strength haue gott. 1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 18 Hewne and framed out of the rocke or growing stone. 1703 N. Rowe Ulysses v. i. 1878 Each moment brings the growing Danger nearer. 1745 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farming (new ed.) iii. 44 The great Stones that we call growing Stones, composed of vast Numbers of small Pebbles that lie in little Cells or Holes. 1782 T. Barker in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 72 282 Soon after April came in, the weather was fine and growing, sometimes showery. 1783 E. Burke Rep. Affairs India in Wks. (1819) XI. 278 This receipt of sums of money, under colour of gift, seemed a growing evil. 1804 Ld. Nelson in Dispatches & Lett. (1846) VI. 126 You are to inquire whether blame is to be attached to any individual for the said loss, in order that it may be charged against his growing wages. 1859 A. Helps Friends in Council New Ser. I. To Rdr. 3 The growing practice of maintaining large standing armies in times of peace. 1863 C. Lyell Geol. Evid. Antiq. Man 31 It seems..to have been surrounded by growing trees. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Growing pay, that which succeeds the dead-horse, or pay in prospect. 1868 A. Helps Realmah I. v. 108 He has growing-up boys to deal with. 1889 J. S. Burdon-Sanderson in Nature 26 Sept. 523 A growing organism is not the same to-day as it was yesterday. Derivatives ˈgrowingly adv. increasingly. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [adverb] increasinglyc1380 waxingly1483 increasably1579 still1596 augmentedly1754 growingly1758 increasedly1823 1758 S. Hayward Seventeen Serm. Introd. 10 He seems to have been growingly solicitous to advance the interest of religion. 1869 I. Burns Life W. C. Burns (1870) iv. 85 The result was seen in a growingly heightened tone of moral and religious life. 1872 Contemp. Rev. 19 211 Every one..must have been growingly persuaded that its investigations were destined to bring out results of deep interest. ˈgrowingness n. rare the characteristic quality of a growing plant; in quot. figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > [noun] > quality of growingness1894 1894 Sat. Rev. 3 Mar. 231 There is a rapid fresh growingness in it [a novel]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.c1380adj.a900
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